General

‘Here the hepter, doctor and porter are our real Gods’ As the financial year draws to an end in March, every other government department and organisation in India is busy finalising and reconciling the accounts. In Leh, the headquarter of 14 Corps, two brigadiers in charge of ordnance and supplies…

India’s latest stealth frigate, INS Teg (Video: Courtesy Indian Navy via ANI; actual visuals start after 20 seconds into the video), is being commissioned into the Indian Navy at the Yantar shipyard at Kaliningrad in Russia today. Armed with the 290-km BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, among other weapon systems, the…

My latest piece in the Japan-based website The Diplomat written almost two weeks ago. Some more developments have taken place in the intervening period but relevant nevertheless. Read on. http://the-diplomat.com/2012/04/26/the-trouble-with-india%E2%80%99s-military/2/?all=true Last month, India’s Parliament was up in arms over the leak of a supposedly top secret letter written by Army Chief Gen.…

 In the on-going battle of perception about Army Chief Gen VK Singh’s standoff with the establishment, on Monday the spotlight will now once again be on the judiciary. A PIL filed by former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral L Ramdas and six other eminent citizens, will once again be heard…